During those years, Aharon Avni, Arie Aroch, Moshe Castel Yehezkel Streichman, Avigdor Stematsky, and Zeev Ben-Zvi, studied there as well.

[1] In 1927, Raayoni completed his studies at Bezalel[2] and moved to the town of Petach Tikva where he worked at odd jobs, including teaching of painting.

In 1955, Raayoni returned to Paris – this time enrolling at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and subsequently he traveled to Italy.

Raayoni's early paintings, immediately after his graduation from Bezalel, are figurative, expressionistic and influenced by the European art of the period.

Initially, as Batia Donner mentioned in her article about Raayoni, "it seemed to chart an evolutionary process that echoes cultural phenomena and trends that occurred at the heart of the Israeli art scene.

However, at a certain moment, his paintings began to flit stylistically back and forth along the time axis, as he tried to identify the precise gesture that may best fit the meaning he sought to express"[10] ( Avniel, M., Hoenich, P.K.